Emeline Brule
emeline.bsky.social
Emeline Brule
@emeline.bsky.social
Round glasses and crazy hair, spends too much time in a workshop Human-Computer Interaction Researcher, Wikipedian, designer, mother
"'baby-friendly hospitals' [promote] breastfeeding as best practice, [so] the new boxes include nursing supplies but no formula, bottles or pacifiers" really means "these hospitals would rather babies go hungry than providing accurate info about formula"

In 2025!!!
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Finnish-Style Baby Boxes Get a New York Twist
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani campaigned to offer citywide baby boxes, a free care package program for expectant NYC mothers. Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams already paved the way.
www.bloomberg.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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60% of those who speak French daily now live in Africa, and 80% of children studying in French are in Africa. There are as many French speakers in Kinshasa as in Paris.

“French flourishes every day in Africa,” said Souleymane Bachir Diagne, professor of philosophy & French at Columbia U.

Gift link
How Africans Are Changing French — One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time
More than 60 percent of French speakers now live in Africa. Despite growing resentment at France, Africans are contributing to the evolution and spread of the French language.
www.nytimes.com
August 19, 2024 at 3:42 AM
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Really positive sign that open source projects are standing up to do the right thing. Kudos to the Python folks: www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...
Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings
: Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helped
www.theregister.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"We must absorb the past out of each object, so it can turn into empty rubbish. This alchemy is deeply exhausting. Every clearing day, the same fog sets in."
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘Under the stuff I can’t throw out is the stuff my parents couldn’t throw out’: novelist Anne Enright on the agony of clearing her family home
Would saying goodbye to every last newspaper clipping, button and book her parents had saved over decades help her mourn?
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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For people who live with facial differences, the increasing reliance on facial recognition tech can create obstacles to accessing essential systems, as they find the stigma they have long experienced “now being echoed by the technology they are forced to interact with.” www.wired.com/story/when-f...
When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face
An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.
www.wired.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I apparently received my PhD seven years ago?? Where did time go.

(Oh right, two years disappeared in a pandemic and two in having and raising a baby)
October 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Children's perceptions that the environment supports their autonomy are correlated with higher reported well-being, and perceptions of autonomy being squelched are correlated with ill-being. Cultural variation in corr strength. Autonomy need support matters! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Relationships Between Experiences of Autonomy and Well(Ill)-Being for K-12 Youth: A Meta-Analysis - Educational Psychology Review
Childhood and adolescence are pivotal developmental stages for psychological health. An understanding of psychological mechanisms related to well-being is important for promoting positive life outcomes for youth. Research generally shows that the basic psychological need for autonomy is significantly associated with well-being. To examine the magnitude and sources of variation in this relationship, we conducted a meta-analysis of 90 reports to analyze the average effect of autonomy need satisfaction (ANS) and frustration (ANF) on indicators of psychological well- and ill-being for K-12 (Kindergarten to 12th grade) youth. Results indicated that ANS was positively associated with psychological well-being and negatively associated with psychological ill-being among youth. Further, ANF was negatively associated with psychological well-being and positively associated with psychological ill-being. Moderator analyses indicated that the association between ANS and well-being was stronger for studies conducted with children and adolescents in East Asian countries compared to studies conducted in the USA, Canada, or Northern Europe when controlling for publication status and measurement reliability. Results also showed that the average correlation between ANS and well-being was stronger for studies located in more collectivistic countries compared to individualistic countries when controlling for publication status and measurement reliability. The relationship between ANS and ill-being was stronger for studies conducted in the USA and Canada compared to East Asian and European contexts. Together, results suggest that autonomy satisfaction is related to the well- and ill-being of youth across cultural contexts, but that there is cultural variation in the association between experiences of autonomy and well-being.
link.springer.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
J’ai appris à nager dans une piscine Tournesol, j’apprends aujourd’hui leur signification architecturale et sociale : très chouette documentaire www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Un ovni dans le paysage : épisode 2/2 du podcast Grand plongeon dans la piscine Tournesol
AUDIO • Grand plongeon dans la piscine Tournesol, épisode 2/2 : Un ovni dans le paysage. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Une histoire particulière, et découvrez nos podcasts en ...
www.radiofrance.fr
September 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Just a few pages in and already loving Jillian Hess’s “How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information” — its relevance to content architecture and editorial affordances in web and content management tools is pinging around in the back of my mind.
September 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I've been an active Wikipedia editor for 9 years, and it's an incredible source of pride. The current attacks, worldwide, on our work are disheartening, but they also bring out great overviews of what we do and why it matters www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive
The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.
www.theverge.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Have you ever wondered how cycling pants wear? Now THERE'S SCIENCE dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Design of Multi-dimensional Intelligent Evaluation System for Cycling Pants Fabric | Proceedings of the 2024 4th International Conference on Computational Modeling, Simulation and Data Analysis
dl.acm.org
September 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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today in question headlines that answer themselves
September 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I’ve complained before about how many ads for becoming a surrogate I get since having a kid, and how predatory that industry is worldwide - we need so many more of these stories out to alert people.

TW *everything* www.wired.com/story/the-ba...
The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It?
When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate.
www.wired.com
September 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Used a summer trip to Paris to visit all the new children museums and galleries - inspired by the Cleveland’s children museum, the MoMA art lab, etc.

Best museum according to the toddler: the 100+ years old Gallery of Paleontology 🧐

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery...
September 2, 2025 at 5:55 AM
"Bringing life to a puppet is also a demystification of process made visible. We wanted to question how we render process, material and labor toward a genuine demystification of how technologies work." On @eryk.bsky.social's newsletter mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-audience...
The Audience Makes the Story
Puppetry as Dream Analysis for AI Anxiety This is a discussion between Camila Galaz, Emma Wiseman, and Eryk Salvaggio, collaborators behind an experimental workshop linking puppetry and generative A...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I don't agree that making lists and goals are always about optimization (I use goals to help me notice when I'm not making time to read, which can very easily disappear between time at work and with kiddo), but this is a good read
annehelen.substack.com/p/a-life-wit...
A Life With Less Pleasure Reading
If a life has no space to read for pleasure, is that life too full?
annehelen.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Once, Sesame Street was a lifeline for indie animators. It offered money and incredible freedom to create.

This built an indie animation boom that powered MTV, Nickelodeon and much more. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-golden...
August 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
An update on this: avoid this variant if you can! Spent most of the last two weeks on sick leave…
(Well, avoid all and every infections that you can, but this is the sickest I have been in my entire adult life - getting Covid is really like playing Russian roulette)
I have covid for the first time despite masking extensively. Two months ago the study of long term health consequences of Covid infections I was in since 2021 stopped due to funding cuts. This all feels very ominous.
August 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Some good suggestions of late summer reading 📚
"The book casts into relief what’s now under grave threat, and what’s worth preserving with all our might," writes @shannonmattern.bsky.social in a review of "Meet Me at the Library." Her review is first of nine in our Summer roundup of recent books on the built environment.

More from our critics:
Bookshelf: Summer 2025 | Book Reviews in Places Journal
A seasonal offering of brief reviews of recent books on architecture, landscapes, cities, and related subjects.
placesjournal.org
August 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Having lived most of my adult life outside of my birth country this resonated a lot. I've spent the last 17 years weighing on where to live, parenthood has not made it any easier, and I loathe how "moving to France" is becoming a grift online www.thecut.com/article/the-...
Selling the Euro-Mom Fantasy
With Trump in office, an increasing number of rich, progressive parents are contemplating moves abroad. Two expat moms see a business opportunity.
www.thecut.com
August 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
If you have a story about using the Wayback Machine, the @archive.org wants to hear from you docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Be Part of the Celebration: RSVP & Share Your Wayback Story
As the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine approaches the incredible milestone of 1 trillion web pages archived, we want to hear from the people who make the web meaningful: you. Tell us how you want t...
docs.google.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Any recommendation for archival supplies for a family archive project? (I need document sleeves, boxes, and misc supplies to preserve scrap books and photo albums)

Also taking recommendations or readings about family archives!
August 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I have covid for the first time despite masking extensively. Two months ago the study of long term health consequences of Covid infections I was in since 2021 stopped due to funding cuts. This all feels very ominous.
August 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Stephanie Shirley is perhaps one of the lesser known tech pioneers, but she shouldn't be. Back in the 60s she saw the potential for women in tech, setting up a company for them to code from home, going by the name Steve because it was a man's world. RIP Dame Shirley

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley, technology pioneer, dies aged 91
She founded the software company Freelance Programmers in 1962, which almost exclusively hired women, and in later life donated almost £70m of her fortune.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM